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That's the whole point. Those "restful API backend services" are not really REST-ful. The essay, "How Did Rest Come To Mean The Opposite of REST"[0], explains this better than I ever could in a HN post. Maybe we should stop growing these Data-APIs (returning JSON) and switch back to Hypermedia-APIs (returning HTML).

[0] https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...

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it might not be the right REST, the key point though, is that it's json data instead of html, which asks you do client side rendering instead of server side rendering.

htmx might be great for server side rendering, but for client-side-rendering(SPA) which consumes json data from the backend, I doubt htmx is a good fit, and there are lots of json-api-service(instead of html) these days for client to consume.

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